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PEOPLE v. MEDINA

Nos. 83SC7, 83SC12.

705 P.2d 961 (1985)

146 Ariz. 284

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. Joseph P. MEDINA, III, Respondent, Colorado Department of Institutions, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Kaplan, City Atty., Morris P. Evans, Asst. City Atty., Denver, for petitioner.

Frank P. Slaninger, Denver, for respondent.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., M. Tracy James, Carolyn Lievers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for intervenor, Colorado Dept. of Institutions.

QUINN, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in People in the Interest of Medina, 662 P.2d 184 (Colo.App.1982), relating to the right of an involuntarily committed and incompetent mental patient to refuse the administration of antipsychotic medicine by attending physicians. The Denver probate court entered an order granting the petition of two psychiatrists to administer antipsychotic...

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